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No. 6|,569. Patented Nov. |3,|9oo.

' J. C. WINANS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

JOI-IN CLOSSON WINANS, OF WALDRON, MICHIGAN.

CARBURETER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 110,661,569, dated November13, 1900.

Application tiled March l, 1900. Serial No. 6.891. (No model.)

To all whom it muy concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN CLOSSON WINANS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Waldron, in the county of Hillsdale and State of Michigan,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus forGenerating Gas for Lighting Purposes, of which the following is a fulland complete speciiication, such as will enable those skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to apparatus for generating gasolene-gas forlighting purposes; and it has for its object to provide a simple andimproved generating mechanism which can be conveniently andinexpensively operated and regulated with relation to the actual degreeof consumption and which will furthermore possess advantages in point ofconvenience, inexpensiveness, ease of operation, and general efficiency.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, inwhich like ref` erence characters denote like parts in the severalviews, Figure l is a side elevation of a generating apparatus embodyingmy improvements. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional View of the heating orgenerating mechanism and the main feeding connection therefrom eX-tending to the reservoir. Fig. 3 is a detail top or plan view showingthe top of the generator.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the gas-storage reservoir, fromwhich extends the service or outlet pipe 2. Said service-pipe 2 may bein direct connection with the burners or the gas-xtures. 3 designates atank for conveying gasolene, from which extends a pipe 4, through whichthe gasolene is adapted to be fed to the generating mechanism, this pipebeing preferably provided with a suitable stop-cock or valve, as/.at 5.Said pipe 4 also embodies, preferably', a screen 6, which may be mountedin a suitable chamber or enlargement 7 upon the pipe 4, the office ofthis screen being to retain any dirt or deleterious substances as thegasolene iiows through the screen and prevent such matter from reachingthe generating mechanism or clogging the valves concerned therein. Thepipe 4 connects with a pipe 8, and a suitable valve 9 is interposed tocontrol the flow of gasolene from the pipe 4 to the pipe 8. This valvepreferably embodies a conical or needle stem which intersects the boreor opening of the pipe and is adapted in the usual manner by adjustmentof its stem to regulate the flow of the gasolene to the pipe 8. Aregulating-valve 9 at this point is desirable for the purpose that theflow of gasolene to the generator should be governed in accordance withthe number of burners which are in service connection with the pipe 2and are in operation, a lesser number of burners requiring a less flowof gasolene than would be required for a greater number of burners. Thepipe 8 is extended into a single horizontal coil, as at 10, a singleapproximately-com plete circle, such as represented in the accompanyingdrawings, being all that is required. This circle or curve in the pipeforms the generating-coil, and from this end is continued the pipe, asat 11, through which the gas is generated by heating of the coil, whichis passed downwardly, as shown. Said pipe 11 leads to a verticallyprojecting outlet or ejector 12, which is governed by a suitable valve13, said valve being preferably of a regulating type embodying a needleor conical stem.

Above the outlet-pipe 12 is arranged a gasreceiver 14, which ispreferably cylindrical and has an open bottom 15, which permits thepassage of the generated gas from the outlet 12 directly into saidreceiver 14. The receiver is preferably sustained in position by anoutlet-pipe 16,which extends vertically and preferably has a threadedconnection, as at 17, with' an annular collar or iiange 18, projectingvertically from the top 19 of the receiver 14. The top end of said pipe16 is connected, preferably, by a threaded connection, as at 20, with apipe 21 and extending laterally or horizontally into the gas-storagereservoir 1, said pipe 21 preferably having a threaded connection, as at22, with an orifice in the reservoir, and at the vertex of the angle ofthe gas passage-way formed by the pipes 16 and 21 is arranged a valve23, by which the feed of the gas to the reservoir is governed. Saidvalve preferably comprises in construction a stem 24, carrying avalve-disk 25, operating with respect to a corresponding seat 26 in thepipe 21 beyond the point of connec- IOO to provide a jet above the top19, it being only necessary to ignite the gas escaping through saidopenings 27. At the top 19 of the gasreceiver 14 is provided anupwardly-extending Vflange 28, which surrounds said top portion and theseries of jet-openings 27 and is E preferably inclined or flaredupwardly, asf This outer flange 28 forms, in conjunction with .the innerflange?` 18, a heating-chamber in which the jets ofi represented in Fig.2.

gas at the openings A27 are maintained, and

ets 29, extending between the flanges 28 and 18. This construction ofthe gas-receiver 14 as just described, whereby it conjointly providesthe heating-chamber and the channel for the passage of the generatinggas to the reservoir and also sustains the generatingcoil of thegasolene-pipe, provides an exceedingly simple and effective arrangementwhich is particularly adapted for efficient operation.

then received by the gas-receiver 14 and directed by the pipes 16 and 21into the gasstorage reservoir 1, from which latter it is drawn offthrough the service-pipe 2. It will be noted that in construction andarrangement as herein described and illustrated the generator itselfprovides the medium by which the generating coil or curve 10 of the pipe8 is heated, whereby a continuous operation is insured and an effectiveresult produced in a very simple manner.

To enable the initial heating of the generating-coil when the gasoleneis first turned on and before any gas is generated, so that the coil 10will be automatically heated during the passage of the gas-receiver 14,I provide a branch connection between the gas-storage reservoir 1 andthe outlet or ejector 12, which branch connection may consist of a pipe30, through which gas from the reservoir may lirst be introduced to thegas-receiver 14 to enable the initial heating of the generatingcoil byjets at the orifices 27. As soon as the coil is sufficiently heatedthrough the medium of this connection 30 to start the generation of thegas in the coil and the consequent passage of the same through the pipe11 to the outlet 12 said connection may then be shut f oft' iby means ofa suitable shut-O cock or valve 31, provided in the pipe 30. Thereservoir 1 may be provided with a drip-cock 32 at its lower end.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as .new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. A-gas-generator,com prisin g thegas-storage reservoir, gasolene-feed means, a generating-coil,gas-conveying means extending from the coil to an outlet or ejector, the,gasreceiver arranged abovexsaid foutletand .havin g an ,open bottom anda perforated top p-rovided with iianges .forming a 4heating-rchamberabove which the generating-coil is arranged,".and .a connectionextending between said gas-receiver and the reservoir. above thisheating-chamber the coil orcircle l 10 of the pipe 8 is suitablysustained, preferably by means of transverse concave brack- 2. In Eagas-generating apparatus, agas-receiver provided with ,jet-openings .andhaving a gas-conduit leading from its main chamber, in `combination witha generating-coil mounted adjacent to 1Said jet-openings, gasoflenefeedlmeans for the saidcoil, and gas-.conveying means extending vfromsaidcoil to an outlet or ejector arranged in operative position withrelation to said gas-receiver.

3. In a gas-generator, a gas-receiver provided with jet-.openings in itstop and having top flanges or extensions forming a heatingchamber aboutsaid jet-openings, a gas-conduit leading from the top-of saidgas-receiver, a generating-coil sustained at .the top ot' the heating-chamber above said jet-openings, gasolene-feed .means for lthe coil, vandgas-conducting means extending from the coil .to an outlet onorificeoperatively arranged `with relation to said gas-receiver.

said gas-receiver, in combination with ,a generating-coil sustained bysaid gas-receiver in operative relation to the heating-chamberand agas-.conducting means extending from said coil to Aan outlet or ejectoryoperatively `arranged with relation to the gas-receiver.

6. Ina gas-generator, .a gas-receiver having an open bottomfand-mouutedabove a gas outlet or ejector, said gas-receiver being provided With aheating-chamber at its top and IOO IIC

means for operating said heating-chamber my invention I have signed myname, in presby gas from the receiver', in combination with ence 0f thesubscribing Witnesses, this 26th a generating-coil sustained inoperative 1"e day of February, 1900.

lation to said heating means of the gas-I'e- JOHN CLOSSON WINANS. 5Ceiver and connected with the outlet or ejee- Witnesses:

tor beneath the open bottom of said receiver. OSCEOLA R. YEAGLEY,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as A ERNEST J. WILSON.

